NYC’s Elmhurst Hospital, at Center of COVID-19 ‘Crisis,’ Sees 13 Patients Die in 24-hour Span

A physician is seen outside at Elmhurst Hospital Center in the Queens borough of New York City on March 26, 2020. Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images

New York City’s Elmhurst Hospital is dealing with an influx of patients with the CCP virus, which causes the COVID-19 disease, as 13 patients died there within 24 hours.

The 13 deaths that occurred on Tuesday and Wednesday was “consistent with the amount of ICU patients being treated there,” a spokesman for NYC Health + Hospitals said in a statement.